Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - New Movie Trailer

“I have some questions for you, Professor."

Synopsis: In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Director: David Yates

Writer: J.K. Rowling

Cast: Katherine Waterston, Johnny Depp, Zoë Kravitz

With a mere flick of its magical wand, Warner Bros. just released the first theatrical trailer for J. K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Of course, the film is the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the second of five new adventures in Rowling's Wizarding World of adventures films.

The film is set some 70 years before the events in the Harry Potter movies so we meet a young Dumbledore played by Jude Law as his school's transfiguration professor. We don't get a whole heck of a lot about the film's plot from the trailer, mostly just flashes of action scenes with fantastically-realized CGI, but we do learn that there is trouble and conflict brewing in the wizarding world when we see Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) set out on a some kind of mission against the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) who was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) at the end of the first film.

The film, which also stars Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, and Claudia Kim, is directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Rowling herself and will hit theaters this holiday season on November 16, 2018.

Here's a look at the exciting first theatrical trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:

And here's the one-sheet movie poster for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has not been rated by the MPAA, but it is safe to expect the family-friendly PG-13.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will appear in theaters this holiday season on November 16, 2018